RPC III, 4319

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 4319
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue L IB = year 12
Dating AD 108/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚΙΚ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Τραϊανὸς Σεβαστὸς Γερμανικὸς Δακικός Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Τραϊαν(ὸς) Σεβ(αστὸς) Γερμ(ανικὸς) Δακικ(ός)
Translation Emperor Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate bust of Trajan, right, draped and cuirassed, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L ΙΒ
Edition ἔτους ιβʹ (ἔτους) ιβʹ
Translation of year 12
Reverse design Roma standing, left, holding Nike and parazonium; to right, Alexandria standing left wearing elephant-skin headdress and holding vexillum, crowning Roma with a laurel wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 20.04 g
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Note Original comment: "The identification of Roma seems sure as she seems to have a bare breast; the figure on the right was identified as ‘Alexandria?’ by Dattari; but Alexandria is normally fully clothed, whereas the figure wears an ‘abito corto’". The second figure can indeed now be identified as Alexandria.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Astarte 24, 10 June 2025, lot 216 = D795 = Naville 44, 4 Nov. 2018. lot 261
2 2     Trade (Numismaticus BV, 2026) = S.L. coll., formed in Germany before 1973